Vic family shunned after Yeshivah abuse

AUSTRALIA
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MANNY Waks is astounded no one from Yeshivah leadership has ever been held to account for the sexual abuse of children under their watch.

HE and another victim of abuse at Melbourne’s Yeshivah College insist at least one Jewish community leader knew abuse was going on but did nothing to stop it.

Mr Waks has told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse the head of Yeshivah Centre, Rabbi Dovid Groner, was aware as early as 1986 of abuse by pedophile David Cyprys.

But the rabbi’s response was that he believed Cyprys had been cured, the commission was told on Monday, as it began hearing from victims of sexual abuse in the Melbourne and Sydney Jewish communities.

Mr Waks said he was only 11 when he was first sexually abused during the Jewish festival of Shavuot by the son of a Yeshivah Centre community leader in Melbourne.

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